Marina Papa-Sokal - Honorary Lecturer

Marina’s research concerns national and international legislation for the protection of cultural heritage. She has taught the Masters’ module ARCL0126 Antiquities and the Law, and occasionally supervises Masters’ dissertations in this area.

Selected recent publications

• Who “Owns” the Euphronios Krater?  Nationalism and Internationalism in the Protection of Archaeological Heritage. Present Pasts 3 (2011) 2--8.
• Nationalism and Internationalism in the Protection of Archaeological Heritage: The Legacy of the 1970 UNESCO Convention.  Invited paper presented at the 112th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (6-9 January 2011). Also presented as an invited speaker at the Third Annual ART Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute (New York City, 19 November 2010).
• Beyond the Nationalist-Internationalist Polarisation in the Protection of Archaeological Heritage: A Response to Professor Merryman.  Art Antiquity and Law  14 (2009)  237-274.
• The U.S. Legal Response to the Protection of the World Cultural Heritage.  Published in Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade, edited by Neil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel, Christina Luke and Kathryn Tubb (University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 2006), pp. 36-67.
• International Law for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: Can Our Past be Salvaged?   Paper presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (January 2005).  Published in Culture without Context #16 (Spring 2005) 20-23.